The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two Quotes

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That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

A voice saying that other word an alive thing must learn, that other word as necessary to living as taking in fuel and making of it movement, music, leaves, roots, dimetrodon spikes, dancing, libraries, children:

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Even if you hadn't entirely deposed (and possibly killed) not one but governments and destabilized all sorts of political regions you couldn't even pronounce, let alone draft up constitutional monarchies for, even if you'd been far more careful about...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic. Observe! You treat it like magic, wield it like magic, fear it like magic! Why should a body with more small circles of copper or silver ...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Shall I tell her? Shall I be a kind and merciful narrator and take our girl aside? Shall I touch her new, red heart and make her understand that she is no longer one of the tribe of heartless children, nor even the owner of the wild and infant heart ...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

And the answer is: You are wrong. The Faeries are not gone. But they are no longer what they were. I watched it and did not help them, though I could have. I cheered. I cheered and I wept and I was glad. Perhaps I should not have been. Perhaps laughi...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups don't cry or blush or clap their hands when they're happy? Don't try to say otherwise, I've seen you fighting like a boxer to change your face so tha...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Family is a transitive property.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

But the trouble is, I do want to be surprised. I want to choose. I broke the heart of my fate so that I could choose. I never chose; I only saw a little girl who looked like me standing on a gear at the end of the world and laughing, and that's not c...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

After all, growing up is nothing but an argument with your parents on the topic of whether or not you are grown. You scream from the moment you're born, and they fire back from the moment they've got you, and on it goes until you can say it loudest.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

A silent Library is a Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of up-to-the-minute politickal fashions and atlases and plays in pentameter! A Library should be full of exclamations! Shouts of d...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library ... A Library should be full of exclamations! ... A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can't-be-rights and scienti...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two